The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08
A COWBOY MILLIONAIRE.
LONG BRANCH MAIDENs IN 4
FLUTTER OVER HIS ADVENT.


LONG BRANCH MAIDENs IN a
FLUTTER OVER HIS ADVENT
How Young james 7. Stewart Grew
Up with the Business-Phil Daily
Returns from Europe - he Visits
Monte Carlo and Tells What he Saw
There,
From fAe Eep Y5rt Stay.
Long BRAxcE. aug. There is e cow
hoy az the Branch-.'A real live COWBOY"
as one Of the bevy Of pretty Young girls ne
rrarIze,i last night. when rather tall. sliillly
built Young man, looking anything hut the
sor1 Of chap that Is pictured a laSs1ing
Texan steers ard riding bareback over the
prairies. passsd by them Nevertheless be
was an object Of interest 70 them, as be has
been during -.,a~~'2el that be has been here
70 al the girls who have known his calling
The Young man halls from Iowa. over who's
boundIess prairies he has rovei FOR nearly
ten wears. first as one 81 the ranchnen-
but latterlv as the manager a the biggest
cattle herd IN the STATE. he i millionaire
cowboy. and his father Is the higgest pork
hacker west u the Mississippi james )
Stewart is known all over the country as
second Only % Phi Armour IN the pork
hacking business he went out 70 Iowa
more than twenty-five years ago. settled in
Council Bluffs. and until PM Armour
developed INTO such potent factor IL
his line Of business, Mr. Stewart was
the foremost pork packer Of The c5'In-
rrv He "a On his WAY here now u
som his sos. who has been taking life
easy along the Jersey coast the past month.
The bows name l. Charles T. Stewart.
Despite his fathers immense wealth he D.
gan life at the bottom. after graduating
from college. he went into the packing
house rs one Of the help and did his share Of
the work Then be went out on the rancho
as q herder led the rough life Of the men be
had to associate With until h. finally found
himself thoroughly equipped for the man
agement Of nearly 5000 head If cattle.
was taIling To Mr. Stewart today about
his life in the West and the future OF the
cattle industry. and be told me that it
PROMISED well for everybody but the syndi
Gates who have been buying up big herds
out there These sYndlcates can never
make any money" he continued. The
profits are always eaten M in big salaries
70 managers and assistant managers.
know Of some companies that pay out
81 go or 8. 900 year to a manager, halls
as much again 10 an assistant, and thus all
the way down. When you take all this out
OF the profits there is very little left, and in
a bad year the balance is apt to be on the
wrong side"
Phil DAILY. who was Philadelphian until
he became rich enough 20 buy the Pennsyl-
vania Club House. has been over in Europe.
He went To Monte Carlo. but be managed
10 get hack here in time 70 open up his own
princely establishment for the benefit OF the
numerous Americans who like 10 wrestle
with tickle fortune there Mr. DAILY talks
in oh oh
servations in Monte Carlo I'm the face of
all the talk that there Is about big betting
over there he said 70 me the other day, 81
don't think there is half as much Of il done
there as III this country. The patrons at
Monte Carlo are not high rollers as a rule.
Sixty pr cent. Of them are women who 90
there more for curiosity than for any
thing else and each one loses little. Ihave
sen bets made at cards both in Philadel-
phia and bere that passed with little COM
Hleut. but II they had been made at Monte
Carlo the talk about them would have
SPREAD through the world as a sensation. a
curious incident that | noticed was the pres
e0ce al the tables, day after day, Of two
grayhsired old women, who sat with four
franc chips in thsir hands but who never
be-. Every now and then when they would
see man scattering his checks over the
table, they would help themselves 70 one or
two Of them when they won, rely
ing on the players fOrgetfulness or on his
nOetesty IN asking a woman to give up
what they bad taken a. he supposed by mis-
take. Tbey were watching for ''sleepers,n
IS we call il in this country, and / guess
they made profitable pursuit Of IL. ANY
one who has A. can have a seat at the table
in Monte Carlo, and the bank has no right
70 obJect 70 their presence or their dOings,
50 long as none OF the players do | had
curiosity enough TO ask one Of the managers
how many suicides had taken place in
Monte Carlo in a year. and / was surprised
10 hear him say that he never heard of any
III the ten years that he had been there